Mr. Crow
10-27-2006, 12:29 PM
Once, long ago, the motor shop I work at advertised on the radio. IT was pretty basic. Who we are, what we do, and how to contact us. It was all fairly useless in the end, as it is simply not the way to get new customers for us.
But there was one call that stood out.
Just as the phone is answered the nut on the other end lunches into a rage filled rant on how the sale of motors and drives is corrupting the earth through pollution (He claimed that motors and drives account for 70% of natural resources used. If that is true, then that is not really a bad thing if you know much about motors and drives.) and that motors and drives actually ruin the lives of people by denying them jobs.
That last one is my personal favorate. I can not fathom the mind that would spew such idiocy. I wonder if he is up set at the steam engine for putting 10 year old miners out of work.
Bonus Short Story:
Aboiut two years ago, I over heard this nice little tech call made to us (I heard our side, and had to ask about the rest).
(Edit: This was not as good as I thought it was at 8AM, as I told the punch line without the joke. So let me try again.)
A customer called about a broken motor. He then procieded to rattle off, over the course of about 45 minutes every detail he could concive. DFispite several attempts to interupt and explain what had gone wrong, he contiunued. THis is the point where the conversation just had to be stopped.
Customer: Well, we need to know why it is no longer operational.
Our Guy: Because you f****** broke it.
I have no idea how the employee has mastered the skill of telling off customers and retaining them, but I envy that skill.
But there was one call that stood out.
Just as the phone is answered the nut on the other end lunches into a rage filled rant on how the sale of motors and drives is corrupting the earth through pollution (He claimed that motors and drives account for 70% of natural resources used. If that is true, then that is not really a bad thing if you know much about motors and drives.) and that motors and drives actually ruin the lives of people by denying them jobs.
That last one is my personal favorate. I can not fathom the mind that would spew such idiocy. I wonder if he is up set at the steam engine for putting 10 year old miners out of work.
Bonus Short Story:
Aboiut two years ago, I over heard this nice little tech call made to us (I heard our side, and had to ask about the rest).
(Edit: This was not as good as I thought it was at 8AM, as I told the punch line without the joke. So let me try again.)
A customer called about a broken motor. He then procieded to rattle off, over the course of about 45 minutes every detail he could concive. DFispite several attempts to interupt and explain what had gone wrong, he contiunued. THis is the point where the conversation just had to be stopped.
Customer: Well, we need to know why it is no longer operational.
Our Guy: Because you f****** broke it.
I have no idea how the employee has mastered the skill of telling off customers and retaining them, but I envy that skill.